The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science". [2] The award alternates between the physical sciences or mathematics and the biological sciences. [3]

Nov 29, 2024 · The Copley Medal is thought to be the world's oldest scientific prize and it was awarded 170 years before the first Nobel Prize. Notable winners include Benjamin Franklin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

Copley Medal, the most prestigious scientific award in the United Kingdom, given annually by the Royal Society of London “for outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science.”

May 17, 2016 · But the Copley Medal has always been about more than simply recognising the world’s most popular scientists. Amongst its winners are scientists whose work in the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, geology, maths and medicine …

Mar 23, 2008 · Professor Stephen Hawking ireceived the world’s oldest award for scientific achievement – the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley medal – for his outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and theoretical cosmology on Nov. 30, 2006.

The premier medals are awarded annually and include the Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific medal still awarded today. The Copley Medal, first awarded in 1731, has been awarded to many notable scientists including Captain James Cook, Lord Lister and Dorothy Hodgkin.

Richard Henderson FMedSci FRS was awarded the Copley Medal in 2016 in recognition of his fundamental and revolutionary contributions to the electron microscopy of biological materials. It enabled their atomic structure to be deduced.

Awarded annually for "outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science" the Copley Medal is the oldest and most prestigious award of the Royal Society and is accompanied by a gift of £25000.

A list of biographical articles on recipients of the Copley Medal, the highest award granted by the Royal Society of London. The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 274 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

Nov 16, 2011 · This article analyses the awarding of the Royal Society's Copley Medal to James Prescott Joule (1870), Julius Robert Mayer (1871) and Hermann Helmholtz (1873) in the wake of the establishment of the law of conservation of energy during the 1850s and 1860s.